20 secret restaurants that foodies love

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Sometimes you find the best cooking in the least expected places. Here we list the knockout restaurants that have won over the nation’s foodies by stealth, from a terraced house in Brixton to a sushi bar serving visitors to a Derby car factory and a Michelin-starred restaurant tucked away in a converted East End town hall

Prices are per person for three courses, a half bottle of wine, coffee and
service

1. Ebi Sushi
Derby, Derbyshire; Japanese; price pp £38Abbey Street, Derby, Derbyshire DE22 3SJ
01332 265656
In this authentic, unflashy sushi restaurant the chef and owner are one and
the same: Mr Ebina. Ebi means prawn in Japanese, so perhaps fate had a hand
in his becoming a sushi chef. Ebi Sushi was set up apparently to feed
Japanese businessmen visiting the Toyota factory in nearby Burnaston, so
that they didn’t get homesick. It worked, and is now so popular there’s no
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